They never talked about Alistair’s parents. Alistair knew her mom grew up with Kath in New Jersey and she knew her father’s father was from Antigua, her father’s mother was from Japan, and her parents met at Aunt Kath’s bachelorette party in Atlantic City. That was it. They were so determined to do the right thing and not say the wrong thing that they basically didn’t say anything at all.
Alistair still had a key. She let herself in.
“Kath?” Alistair called out. Aunt Kath had been slowly phased out over the years since Alistair moved to the city. Kath was her aunt, her mother’s sister, but it still felt like a formal holdover from a different time.
“Honey?” Kath peeked in from the kitchen pass-through, and screamed, her hands in the air like she was being arrested. “Gus is gonna be so m
